| Topic: | Committee Clerks Manager says - don't write to us anymore! | |
| Posted by: | Victor Mishiku | |
| Date/Time: | 08/04/13 18:13:00 |
| In the lengthy process of trying to get Ealing Council to see sense and publish the full approved Agreed Minutes on their March Committee section on the Web (instead of the erroneous ones), I asked for the single page "Correction Sheet" that was produced by Mr Mike Davidson, Committee Clerk, for the 3rd April Committee to be forwarded to me so that I could e-mail it to all the other neighbours who had attended the previous 13th March Planning Committee Meeting, when the Committee rejected the Application by Dr Onkar Singh Sahota. The Committee Clerk, Mr Mike Davidson, who had attended the 13th March Meeting kindly said that he would "gladly foward" the document by e-mail to me. That was on the 4th April. Mr Davidson wrote: "I am working away from the office today but will gladly forward you the 1 page summary of the changes agreed at last nights meeting when I am next in the office tomorrow." As it had not arrived by today, I wrote to Mr Davidson earlier and reminded him about it - whereupon I received a somewhat hostile and dismissive reply from his superior officer, Ms Linda Zimmerman saying that we were not to contact Mr Davidson again as he had already dealt with all the various enquiries on the (Dr Sahota) case. Since Mr Davidson himself had said that he would "gladly" send me the document, I fail to see what was wrong is reminding him of that fact and asking for the item. Last month, Mr Davidson himself had specifically asked me to inform all the neighbours who had queries to kindly contact him rather than his superiors. I have written back to Ms Linda Zimmerman today (please see my full reply at the link below) and repeated my request for this one-page document. I am also going to ask the Ward Councillors if this case could be sent to the Scrutiny Committee as there are a number of rather unusual aspects to the entire mishandling of it by more than one Council Department and all seeming to favour the Labour GLA Member - the developer in this case who seeks to, in my opinion, "butcher" a grand Victorian detached villa built 128 years ago by Mr James Wills (who lived there) without glass roof boxes and unneighbourly side extensions up against next door's living-room walls (making the properties semi-detached) or massive underground "playrooms" and sundry unsightly and inappropriate flat roof extensions. My letter to the Council can be read at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14377445/LettertoMsLindaZimmerman_8thApril2013.pdf As was once said: "Where there is error, may we bring truth" |